Lidia Alma Thorpe - Revision history

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	[[Lidia Alma Thorpe]] (born 1973) is an Australian independent politician. She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020 and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state. She was a member of the Australian Greens until February 2023 when she quit the party over disagreements concerning the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament. She had also served as the Greens' deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2022.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lidia_Thorpe&oldid=1150338846</ref>		[[Lidia Alma Thorpe]] (born 1973) is an Australian independent politician. She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020 and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state. She was a member of the Australian Greens until February 2023 when she quit the party over disagreements concerning the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament. She had also served as the Greens' deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2022.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lidia_Thorpe&oldid=1150338846</ref>

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 Despite this it appears she did not make a complaint to the police until late October 2024.<ref>https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/police-charge-woman-over-alleged-assault-on-senator-lidia-thorpe-outside-the-mcg/news-story/b76812276f78c4d8edd7f3547b979a89</ref>
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 *[[Hollie Hughes]]
-== External Links ==
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 *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfM2WOBy8H0 Swearing in, 2022.]

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 === June 2022 ===
-During an interview Thorpe said she was there to 'infiltrate' the Australian parliament and that the Australian flag had "no permission to be here". Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price denounced Thorpe's comments and called for her dismissal from parliament.
+During an interview Thorpe said she was there to 'infiltrate' the Australian parliament and that the Australian flag had "no permission to be here". Senator [[Jacinta Nampijinpa Price]] denounced Thorpe's comments and called for her dismissal from parliament.
 Thorpe gained media attention during her swearing-in ceremony. She added the words "the colonising" in the required Oath of Allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II by saying:

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 == Assault ==
-In October 2024 Thorpe publicly alleged that a woman known to her had assaulted her near the grounds of an Australian Rules Football game early in 2024.  The woman was subsequently charged but her name has not yet been released. Thorpe claims that she sustained serious spinal injuries, had a plate put in her back and could not attend parliament as a result of her injuries.  If true this could ''constitute grevious bodily harm''.<ref>https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/police-charge-woman-over-alleged-assault-on-senator-lidia-thorpe-outside-the-mcg/news-story/b76812276f78c4d8edd7f3547b979a89</ref>
+In October 2024 Thorpe publicly alleged that a woman named [[Ebony Bell]] had assaulted her near the grounds of an Australian Rules Football game early in 2024.  The woman was subsequently charged.  Thorpe claims that she sustained serious spinal injuries, had a plate put in her back and could not attend parliament as a result of her injuries.  If true this could ''constitute grevious bodily harm''.<ref>https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/police-charge-woman-over-alleged-assault-on-senator-lidia-thorpe-outside-the-mcg/news-story/b76812276f78c4d8edd7f3547b979a89</ref><ref>https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/lawyer-representing-lidia-thorpes-alleged-attacker-ebony-bell-claims-there-are-real-deficiencies-in-senators-accusation/news-story/f69f93cd77c1e337799cc7ca60260d85</ref>
 Despite this it appears she did not make a complaint to the police until late October 2024.<ref>https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/police-charge-woman-over-alleged-assault-on-senator-lidia-thorpe-outside-the-mcg/news-story/b76812276f78c4d8edd7f3547b979a89</ref>

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 == Assault ==
-In October 2024 Thorpe publicly alleged that a woman known to her had assaulted her near the grounds of an Australian Rules Football game early in 2024.  The woman was subsequently charged but her name has not yet been released. Thorpe claims that she sustained serious spinal injuries, had a plate put in her back and could not attend parliament as a result of her injuries.  If true this could ''constitute grevious bodily harm''.
+In October 2024 Thorpe publicly alleged that a woman known to her had assaulted her near the grounds of an Australian Rules Football game early in 2024.  The woman was subsequently charged but her name has not yet been released. Thorpe claims that she sustained serious spinal injuries, had a plate put in her back and could not attend parliament as a result of her injuries.  If true this could ''constitute grevious bodily harm''.<ref>https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/police-charge-woman-over-alleged-assault-on-senator-lidia-thorpe-outside-the-mcg/news-story/b76812276f78c4d8edd7f3547b979a89</ref>
-Despite this it appears she did not make a complaint to the police until late October 2024.<ref>https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/police-charge-woman-over-alleged-assault-on-senator-lidia-thorpe-outside-the-mcg/news-story/b76812276f78c4d8edd7f3547b979a89</ref?
+Despite this it appears she did not make a complaint to the police until late October 2024.<ref>https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/police-charge-woman-over-alleged-assault-on-senator-lidia-thorpe-outside-the-mcg/news-story/b76812276f78c4d8edd7f3547b979a89</ref>
 == Quotes ==

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	Footage emerged of Thorpe in a verbal altercation with men outside a Melbourne strip club. Thorpe claimed the men provoked the altercation, while the manager of the club claimed she provoked the incident by approaching white patrons and telling them they had stolen her land.		Footage emerged of Thorpe in a verbal altercation with men outside a Melbourne strip club. Thorpe claimed the men provoked the altercation, while the manager of the club claimed she provoked the incident by approaching white patrons and telling them they had stolen her land.
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		+	== Assault ==
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		+	In October 2024 Thorpe publicly alleged that a woman known to her had assaulted her near the grounds of an Australian Rules Football game early in 2024. The woman was subsequently charged but her name has not yet been released. Thorpe claims that she sustained serious spinal injuries, had a plate put in her back and could not attend parliament as a result of her injuries. If true this could ''constitute grevious bodily harm''.
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		+	Despite this it appears she did not make a complaint to the police until late October 2024.<ref>https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/police-charge-woman-over-alleged-assault-on-senator-lidia-thorpe-outside-the-mcg/news-story/b76812276f78c4d8edd7f3547b979a89</ref?

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 Thorpe made these statements without apparently realising that    this would mean that she was sitting in parliament illegally.
-[[Robert Brockway]] noted the mispronunciation during her second reading of the oath in 2022 and stated at the time that he was surprised the President of the Senate, [[Sue Lines]], had accepted Thorpe's second reading of the oath as valid.
+[[Robert Brockway]] noted the mispronunciation during her second reading of the oath in 2022 and stated at the time that he was surprised the President of the Senate, [[Sue Lines]], had accepted Thorpe's second reading as valid.
 == Other Controversies ==

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 Thorpe's statements at this event constitute renunciation of her oath of allegiance to the crown.  Under S42 of the Constitution this would make her ineligible to sit in parliament.<ref>https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/House_of_Representatives/Powers_practice_and_procedure/Practice7/HTML/Chapter5/Swearing-in</ref><ref>https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/ca1934188/s42.html</ref>
-== 23 October 2024 ==
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 During an interview with the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] Thorpe was asked if she had renounced her oath of allegiance to the crown.  In an extraordinary statement she claimed that she had not made it in the first place.<ref>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-23/lidia-thorpe-says-she-swore-allegiance-to-queens-hairs/104508694</ref><ref>https://archive.is/PuTkv</ref>
 Thorpe made these statements without apparently realising that    this would mean that she was sitting in parliament illegally.
 == Other Controversies ==